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New Lifetime High Reached: Advance Auto Parts (AAP)

Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link.

Trade-Ideas LLC identified
Advance Auto Parts (
AAP) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Advance Auto Parts as such a stock due to the following factors:

AAP has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $94.5 million.

Advance Auto Parts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, accessories, batteries, and maintenance items. It operates in two segments, Advance Auto Parts (AAP), and Autopart International (AI). The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.2%. AAP has a PE ratio of 18.6. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Advance Auto Parts a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Advance Auto Parts has been 788,700 shares per day over the past 30 days. Advance Auto Parts has a market cap of $7.5 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. The stock has a beta of 0.88 and a short float of 3.7% with 2.97 days to cover. Shares are up 42.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Advance Auto Parts as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

Compared to where it was 12 months ago, this stock has enjoyed a nice rise of 33.18% which was in line with the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, AAP should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC has improved earnings per share by 17.4% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC increased its bottom line by earning $5.22 versus $5.12 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($5.43 versus $5.22).

Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 9.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.3%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.

The gross profit margin for ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC is rather high; currently it is at 53.35%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 6.83% trails the industry average.